Cody Choi

From Asian Art Documentation

Born in 1961 in Seoul

Now residing in New York & Seoul

Solo Exhibition:

2003 < Multiplying Difference/Post-Ready Made> PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2000 <New Pictorialism, Data Base Painting / We Are in Jungle>? Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1996 <The thinker, December>Deitch Projects, New York, USA

1996 <Not conservitive in conserve> Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibition:

2004 <Standing on a Bridge> ARARIO Gallery, Chonan, Korea

2004 <Digital Sublime, New Masters of Universe>Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan

2004 <Frieze Art Fair 2004>Regent's Park, England, London

2002 <Media city in seoul 2002> Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2000 <Snap Shot> The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. U.S.A.

2000 <Continental Shift-Aachen/Heerien/Liega/Maastrich> Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht,

Nederland / Ludwig Forum International. Kunst, Aachen, Germany / Museum d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain, Liege, Belgium / Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, Nederland Cody Choi’s work has a philosophical dimension eloquently visualized in a personal way. His sensitivity to the relationship between the East and the West owns much to his experience of moving first from Seoul to Los Angeles in the early 1980's, and then to New York City in the 1990's. This double-layered situation, East (Korea) and West (USA)/East (NY) and West (LA), inspires his work Twin Funerals. The migrating experience inspires him to adopt a critical attitude towards culture. He observes that though the new millennium seems to signal a new era with new things such as virtuality, cybernetics, anti-Euclidean theories, there is, beneath the surface of history, another layer where things disappear and are reborn. This notion can be found in Gone With The Wind1, a series of paintings on canvas with vibrantly colored images transferred from video scenes. According to the artist, Gone With The Wind1 suggests the double death of reality through conventional and digital imagery.